EVIL DEAD: REGENERATION

FORMAT PS2 / RELEASED 2005 / PUB THQ / DEV CRANKY PANTS GAMES / GET IT NOW EBAY, £40-50

Load your shotgun, refuel your chainsaw and rev up the Oldsmobile: this month we’re going on a joyride to explore some classic ghoul gibbing served up Ash-Williams-style. With another Evil Dead game set to burst its way out of the ground in February, now is as good a time as any to review one of the higher points in Ash’s prior forays into videogames: Evil Dead: Regeneration.

Regeneration was developed by Cranky Pants Games, a studio founded by several former employees of EA Seattle and owned by THQ. Holder of the Evil Dead game licence, THQ had previously published two titles based on it: 2000’s Evil Dead: Hail To The King for PS1, Dreamcast, and Windows;